Tefap farm bill

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the Texas Department of Agriculture $1,082,455 on June 9, 2026, under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs) formula grant to cover storage and distribution costs for TEFAP USDA Foods. The award runs through June 8, 2027, and is allocated to Texas under a legislatively-mandated formula based on the state's relative share of persons below the poverty level (60 percent weight) and unemployed persons (40 percent weight). Texas must make at least 40 percent of the administrative grant available to emergency feeding organizations or expend funds on their behalf. All participating agencies operate under federal/state agreements that are ongoing and subject to amendment. The funding is distributed via electronic transfer as needed for actual expenditures on a fiscal-year basis; any unused funds revert to the federal government for reallocation among states according to the same formula.